KABUL – A leaked memo from a staff member in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s office this week has set off a storm of criticism and accusations that the note lays bare systematic favoritism to Ghani’s own Pashtun ethnic group. The undated memo, about appointments in the Administrative Office of the President (AOP), appeared to show...

The New York Public Library is suing a Fifth Avenue condo board that is holding up renovations of a Midtown branch unless the library pays $15,000 a month. Legal precedent suggests the library, which...

The Justice Department announced this week that there was no evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped, as President Trump alleged. OK, that almost settles the issue. I’m still waiting for the New York Times — the self-proclaimed “paper of record” — to explain its Jan. 20 front page story that had the headline “Wiretapped Data...